Murder by Numbers is an indie developed by Mediatonic, released 5 March 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Murder by Numbers is
Murder by Numbers is an indie game developed by Mediatonic and released in 2020. It was published by The Irregular Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Los Angeles, 1996. Honor Mizrahi was just an actress on a hit TV detective show. But when her boss ends up dead just minutes after he fires her, she finds herself starring in her own murder mystery. Teaming up with SCOUT, a reconnaissance robot thrown away after a mysterious incident, she sets out to clear her name - and a new detective duo is born!
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action, drama and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Murder by Numbers holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Murder by Numbers launched on 5 March 2020, within three weeks of Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Black Mesa. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Black Mesa.
Cheats and codes
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